Song/hits made with Reason and Fruity Loops

[Phizal]

Originally Posted by Chris Lago

That's not true, I am a musician and I still produce in FL Studio. I have mixed songs in FL as well, especially Electro tracks that I have produced and sounded fine in FL.

Well then, you are an exception, just as I stated in the first couple of sentences. I stated indirectly that this was possible, but not as many compared to other DAWS because the nature of FL. Because if this was true, Major engineers would be mixing in FL. It just won't get love for that department. FL was originally programmed for rigid song and beat making. Yes, FL has updated but not in the capacity of the routing capabilities that Pro Tools, Cubase and others have. It's like ascension, you have to break out of the matrix sometimes to gain more knowledge.

[Methlab]

FL has such good feel on the drums and is so good for MIDI that it is a go to.

Since I like to record guitars and bass as well, I just dump into Cubase since it is much better for live audio tracking/editing.

[Guy Gabriel]

I didn't really read this thread but now that we're in 2012 all I can say is that MOST of the biggest hits last year were my in FL (lex luger, cardiak...)

Idon't use it but it's a great DAW to make beats and it isn't less professional than others, the producer should be the professional.

If you're a pro and you got the talent you can make hits on FL just like you can make them on Logic or Pro Tools.

[Phizal]

Originally Posted by Methlab

FL has such good feel on the drums and is so good for MIDI that it is a go to.

Since I like to record guitars and bass as well, I just dump into Cubase since it is much better for live audio tracking/editing.

This what I do sometimes. Maybe I should of been simple. I wouldn't use FL to record a band, I'm not saying you can't, it's just it doesn't have the capabilities I need.

[KevWest]

Originally Posted by atlantis

I see there are alot of guys usen Reason and FL Studio. Some are making nice tracks with the programs and some are making some horrible stuff. But my question is for you guys that are usen these programs,which way do you find urself getting better sound out of you tracks.

Do you guys do any mixing in Fl Studio or Reason and then export the tracks out individually to Pro Tools or what ever software you might use. For example. Say you have a Kick in the NNXT and a Snare on the Readrum. Do you guys set the tracks lets say the NNXT at 75 and the Readrum Snare Bank at 80. And leave the master at 100 with no effects on and then export it to your DAW . Or do you guys dont do any mixing in Reason or Fl studio and just send each track out dry at 100 and do all the cosmetics in your DAW. Or do you guys just rewire.

If this topic has been coverd numerous amount of times sorry for bringing it back up. But I was just curious on how you guys are doing it. Cus I know producers like Polo,Cardiak,Nard&B,Dj Toomp,DJ Khalil,Lex Luger,and many others are usen these programs and there beats are sounding ok.

Honestly when I make tracks I do everything in Reason and most of the time the artist raps on my Reason 2 track mixes and nobody really complains about how the song sounds. It comes from getting good source sounds and knowing how you want the record to sound. Sound selection is key to mixing and honestly if you pick the right sounds from the beginning you won't have to do much mixing later outside of minor EQ, compression and leveling.

[djchev]

Stop wasting yall time arguing about whether or not FL is legit. Industry cats dont care what you made the music on. If you used a talkbox from home alone and a toothbrush they DONT CARE. I mean if its a hit why would you. Folks talk about you cant get that big sound in FL. LMAO!!! Half of watch the throne was made in FL. N****s in paris= fruityloops H.A.M= Fruityloops. Over-Drake= Fruityloops. DAWs DONT HAVE A SOUND QUALITY TO THEM!!!! I work in IT and if i dont know anything else i know computers. If I use a Drum Sample and apply the same effects in the same order to them in different production DAWs (Fruityloops, Reason, Ableton) they will sound IDENTICAL. Hardware thats a different story all together. But realistically if you have high quality samples, and you know what you are doing you will sound good using anything. Lex Luger, 9th Wonder, Hit Boy, The Business, The list goes onnnn..... THEY ALL USE FRUITYLOOPS. if you have any more nonsense to talk holla at me on twitter @djchev.

PS:producers hit up my blog lifewithchev.com for some free sounds etc.

Xavier "Dj Chev" Henderson

[KevWest]

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Originally Posted by djchev

Stop wasting yall time arguing about whether or not FL is legit. Industry cats dont care what you made the music on. If you used a talkbox from home alone and a toothbrush they DONT CARE. I mean if its a hit why would you. Folks talk about you cant get that big sound in FL. LMAO!!! Half of watch the throne was made in FL. N****s in paris= fruityloops H.A.M= Fruityloops. Over-Drake= Fruityloops. DAWs DONT HAVE A SOUND QUALITY TO THEM!!!! I work in IT and if i dont know anything else i know computers. If I use a Drum Sample and apply the same effects in the same order to them in different production DAWs (Fruityloops, Reason, Ableton) they will sound IDENTICAL. Hardware thats a different story all together. But realistically if you have high quality samples, and you know what you are doing you will sound good using anything. Lex Luger, 9th Wonder, Hit Boy, The Business, The list goes onnnn..... THEY ALL USE FRUITYLOOPS. if you have any more nonsense to talk holla at me on twitter @djchev.

PS:producers hit up my blog lifewithchev.com for some free sounds etc.

Xavier "Dj Chev" Henderson

[RevolutionStudio]

Originally Posted by Synthy08

just a few from 2010 off the top of my head...

Fruity Loops:
Drake-Uptown, Over, Its Been A Pleasure, The Resistance, Up all Night, 9am in Dallas, TX, Forever, Miss me etc..

Eminem-Seduction, Not Afraid, Love the way you lie

Lil Wayne- Bedrock, Young money salute, Gonorrhea, Steady Mobbin

Lyfe Jennings-Statistics

Ludacris-How low

Nicki Minaj- Massive Attack, Roger that

Diddy-Love come down

B.O.B.-Airplanes

T-Pain-Rap Song

Rick Ross- Freemason, MC Hammer, B.M.F.

Trey Songz- Bottoms up

Wale- Beast

Erykah Badu- 20 Feet Tall

To clarify and add to this though

Eminem's Not Afraid and Love The Way You Lie was composed in Fruity Loops, but the songs were mixed in Pro Tools HD by Mix Engineer Mike Strange

This is the Not Afraid Session in Pro Tools
http://media.soundonsound.com/sos/oc...ages/IT_02.jpg


Also Lil Wayne's "John" beat was composed by Ayo the Producer in Fruity Loops, but the "song" was produced by Polo Da Don.
http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/ayo-the-...ideo.4507.html

These are the correct facts that some people get mislead by.

[drethe5th]

At the end of the day, it dont matter. Some excell with one tool as others dont.

Quiet. I have a secret........ I cant use a MPC very well. Ive composed on it, but if you gave me a choice of that, a motif or software sequencer, Id pass on the MPC.

Girls wear cheap clothes. More than guys. Because it dont matter. If she's hot it shows even when its not Prada and Gucci.

Same with music, if his beats are better than yours its hot, regardless of name brand DAW.

Khalil - Dope = Reason
9th Wonder - Dope = FL
Just Blaze - Dope = MPC
Swizz Beats - Dope = Triton

All bases covered. Now wheres your placements.........

Sent from my MB860 using Gearslutz App

[Munkiiedude]

Greetings. I'm a new member here.

I started making music since 1999, started by using FL Studio (by then it's called Fruity Loops) and until now I'm using FL Studio 10. I read all the post here and I agreed that good music comes from the musician, not the program.

for other post i've read, i think i understand at some point to produce a good quality music, FL Studio is only to create, for mixing has to be on other DAW, with hardware. i'm an audio engineer, not the real pro but self-study and worked before in real mixing hardware. software works fine but still need hardware to make the music much better quality. that's what i believe.

i could say everyone has their own verdict on daw, and most i hear FL Studio not as good as others. my housemate has been telling me to change to logic, or pro tools, or cubase, and he wanted to make music but no experience at all on daws. i introduce him to FL Studio because to me it's easy to lay tracks out from your mind, especially one function like you hum out the music and record it, dump to piano roll such, really convenient. all i can say is, he's looking forward to good producing daws and he had no idea to start out a simple one. yet, if he's gonna lay a full track, that's probably taking him a long time to learn because he can't make the difference between reverb and delay. now he's telling me to switch to logic or cubase.

honestly, i like to learn more of other daws, but doesn't mean FL Studio not good. over the years it improves so many things that surprises me a lot. i believe that people would say if you're using FL Studio, you're cheap. i don't mind people calling me that, because i do believe some famous people out there still using FL Studio. end of the day its all about the preferences. there will be no end argueing which is the best. on music radar, FL Studio voted the best DAW last year, and it makes me happy to hear about it because everyone gets the chance to use it, make music out of it. bad/good music, there's always a season to it. improvement needs time.

once i heard someone said this to me: "if your skill is 20 cents, and you're using million dollar equipment, your product still will be 20 cents. however, if your skill is million dollar, and you're using a 20 cents equipment, your product will be million dollar."

-I"m an Asian, forgive my bad English.

[yourmajesty]

The motto, T-Minus

[The Aristocrat]

lol, the DAW war rages on...forever to be continued because of pricing and suggested hearing and lack of talent.

Just to add a very interesting tidbit to this whole discussion.

Hans Zimmer uses Cubase...
why? according to him and this is by no means a joke Cubase is not " coloured like other systems" ....his words not mine.

I know people are always arguing about "perceived hearing" and "golden ears"
"I don't care if you can't hear it but I can" but according to Mr. Zimmer Cubase is not colored.

Want to read the article here it is
http://www.steinberg.net/en/artists/...ns_zimmer.html

Take it up with Mr. Zimmer

I personally don't know where to sit on this one guys, is Hans also a victim of hearing differences he wants to hear or is their really something to this whole color thing. Who knows?

carry on soldiers.

[The Aristocrat]

btw he was talking about the production of "Inception" nothing big...